Easter Sale! 20% off Zen Pencils posters

Hello my beautiful readers! Get 20% off Zen Pencils posters this week, including some new designs I’ve added to the store. The Frida Kahlo Strange Like Me is now available. I’ve had to edit the comic slightly after finding out the quote is misattributed to Kahlo. You can read the full story on the updated comic post. There’s also Rumi’s The Guest House, Sophie Scholl’s The Fire Within and my own story The Calling. Choose from another 50+ designs in the store!

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Right now, I’m at work reading this & quietly crying. You’ve no idea the impact this has had on me. I was born female & at a very young age, told my parents I was a boy. They reported this to a doctor who encouraged my parents to make me be a “normal girl.” In many ways, my life was similar to what’s in this comic, just the other way around. It was very lonely to know what I am but no one would listen.

The courage to ask the question is a hard thing to come by, but it’s so critical for those of us who need a little help to live as our authentic selves. Now, 25 years after I first said I’m a boy, I’m living as a trans man. But so many aren’t alive at all anymore, so many fall on the path to themselves, and the lack of support in a harsh world is a huge contributing factor to that.

So. Thank you for capturing so much of how I’ve felt, so much of how many of us have felt. I know I’m opening myself up for some awful responses to my gender identity, but that’s fine. I just…I wanted you to know how this comic matters to someone like me.

So do you really believe this is the answer? Did you know there are people who had been allowed and even more, they have been encouraged to transgender and then regretted their decision? Did you know some of them committed a suicide? There are no simple answers. Please stop encouraging people to go one particular direction in this case, this is too serious. Please stop playing with people’s lives in order to be politically correct.

Thanks for this one. I’ve been feeling bad lately since I still couldn’t get a proper job as an artist. I have made a bunch of my own comic books and I had just sold a lot of them at a convention last weekend.

Problem was people kept making me feel like i’d be struggling forever. Like I did everything wrong and that I’d never be a good artist. Nobody would hire me as an artist because my style is too weird and art directors wouldn’t know what to do with me. It feels terrible.

There’s pressure everywhere and the guilt of not having the means to make money was so overwhelming. I would hear “You’re 27, after 3 years nobody will hire you anymore.” or “You should’ve taken your college years more seriously and chose a better line of work.”

But I tell ya, when I start writing and drawing my comic books. Time just melts away. I love it when people come to my table and tell me they enjoyed one of my books. I love the feeling when I finished my latest book or when i print my new batch to be sold. I wish I could just do this forever and not have to worry about getting a “real” job.

So again thanks for this. I never wanted to be the best artist. I just wanted to do enough so I can tell my stories 😀 Also check out my blog for samples of my cartoons: http://www.chuckcartoons.blogspot.com

Sublime work, Gav. The amount of effort, research and creativity you’ve put in this one is clearly visible. I’ve been hooked onto your site for quite some time now. I’ve gone through almost every one of your comics in a short space of time, often shedding tears along the way, and yet ending up inspired, motivated and peaceful. I just ordered your two books and will continue to keep coming back to the site for more.

The weirder you’re going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too. When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing extraordinary about that person.

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It looks like you have got some exciting offers for the Zen pencils posters here. Some new designs are also added to the collection. I will definitely look to buy a couple of those posters. Thanks for sharing the collection.

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